1. - Come, let us exult [Gr. unto] in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.
2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: [Heb. and Alex. omit this clause; See Ps 94:14] for the Lord will not cast off his people.
4. For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his.
5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6. Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.
7. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
8. [Heb 3:7-12.] To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of [Note, peirasmou is the reading of several editions] irritation in the wilderness:
9. where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
10. Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
11. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.